Siva Sridhar Steals The Show With Seven Individual Gold Medals Powering Jain University To the Top in the Medal Tally

by Kheltoday · May 29, 2023

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Gautam Buddha Nagar: Siva Sridhar with two more individual Gold Medals to his kitty has powered Jain University to the top of the medal tally in the final day of the swimming competitions at the Khelo India University Games 2022 Uttar Pradesh. With seven individual gold medals and 2 Silvers and 1 Bronze medal and a Team Gold, Siva is the most decorated athlete of this Khelo India University Games so far and his powerful performance was instrumental in ensuring Jain University Men’s and Women’s Swimming team walked away as the champion of the swimming competition.

The Boxing competitions began today at the SVSP Sports Complex Gautam Buddha Nagar. In the 45-48 KG category quarterfinals Swasti Arya of Mahirshi Dayanand Saraswati University (MDSU) beat Lovely Professional University’s (LPU) Anisha 4-0 to advance to the semi-finals while in the other quarterfinal Guru Nanak Dev University’s (GNDU) Gitika advanced to the semi-finals defeating JanhaviChuri of University of Madras (UOM). In the 48-50 KG category LPU’s Tamanna & Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University’s Manasi Sharma advanced to the semi-finals defeating Somwati and Anchal Singh with identical scores of 5-0 respectively. A total of 24 bouts each are to be played in the two-day quarterfinal stage.

In the final day of the swimming competitions at thew SVSP Sports complex in Gautam Buddha Nagar, Jain University’s Siva Sridhar added two more Gold medals to his kitty in the Men’s 50 M backstroke (27.30)&100 M freestyle (52.76) events taking his individual gold medal tally to seven golds in this edition of the Khelo India University Games 2022 Uttar Pradesh. Pratyasha Ray (31.99) from Utkal University clinched the Gold in the Women’s 50 M backstroke event while Shrungi Bandekar of Jain university walked away with the gold medals in Women’s 100 M freestyle (1:01.51) and 200 M Medley (2:31.02). University of Delhi Institution of eminence’s Anurag Singh (8:44.54) won the Gold in the Men’s 800 M freestyle event. Danush Suresh (1;03.98)of Saveetha Institute of Medical & Technical Sciences &Chahat Arora (1:17.36) of Panjab University won the Gold in the men’s & women’s 100 M breaststroke event.

Abhidnya Ashok Patil of Bhartiya Vidyapeeth University, made her Khelo India University Games debut in style clinching the gold medal in the women’s 25 M Pistol event with a total score of 30 while Niveditha Veloor Nair of Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu walked with the Silver medal with 29 points. Maa Shakabhari University’s Neha won the bronze medal with a score of 25after a shoot off with Olympian & India International Manu Bhaker.

Panjab University team of Manu Bhaker, Gauri Sheoran& Milan Godara won the Gold medal in the Women’s 25 M Pistol category while Savitribai Phule Pune University team of VaridhiGoray, Shreya Badade and MeghnaNarke won the Silver medal. Devanshi Dhama, Medha Rathore and Himanshi from Guru Nanak Dev University won the bronze medal in the category.

In the men’s 10 M Air Pistol event Indira Gandhi University’s Kamaljeet shot brilliantly with two near perfect shots of 10.9 to overpower a strong competitive field to walk away with the Gold medal. Kamaljeet scored a total of 242.1, while Silver medalist and India International Sarabjot Singh of Panjab University shot a total of 239.1. Delhi University Sports Council’s Sahil Choudhary with a total score of 216.9 won the bronze medal.

In the Men’s 10 M Air Pistol Team event, Panjab University’s Aditya Marla, Sarabjot Singh &Udhayveer Sidhu won the Gold medal while Maharshi Dayanand University’s Hardeep Singh Gill, Shubham and ShubhamBisla won the Silver medal. Devansh Gupta, SahilChoudhary and Varun Dubey of Delhi University Sports Council won the Bronze medal.

Results of The Day

Swimming

Women 200M Medley

Shrungi Rajesh Bandekar, 02:31.02, Jain University Karnataka (1), FirdosuhKayamkhani, 2:33.55, University of Kota (2); ShristiUpadhaya, 2:34.71, Jadavpur University (3)

Women 100M Freestyle

Shrungi Rajesh Bandekar, 1:01.51, Jain University Karnataka (10); ShristiUpadhaya, 1:02.93, Jadavpur University (2); Sadhvi Gopal Dhuri, 1:03.49, SavitribaiPhule Pune University (3)

Men 100M Freestyle

Siva Sridhar, 52.76, Jain University of Karnataka (1); VikkasPrabhakar, 52.78, SRM University TM (2); Veer Khatkar, 53.12, MaharshiDayanand University (3)

Men 800M Freestyle

Anurag Singh, 08:44.54, University of Delhi Institution of Eminence (1); DhyanBalakrishna, 08:52.52, Jain University Karnataka (2); Krishna RajendraGadakh, 09:01.69, University of Kerala

Men 4X200M Freestyle

Jain University Karnataka, 2:31.02, (1); University of Delhi Institution of Eminence, 08:16.58, (2); Panjab University PB, 08:19.00, (3)

Women 4X100M Freestyle

University of Madras, 04:21.45, (1); Jain University Karnataka, 04:27.79, (2); Jadavpur University, 04:31.97, (3)

Women 50M Breaststroke

Pratyasa Ray, 31.99, Utkal University (1); Shrungi Rajesh Bandekar, 32.20, Jain University Karnataka (2); Bharti X, 32.96, University of Delhi Institution of Eminence (3)

Men 50M Breaststroke

Siva Sridhar, 27.30, Jain University Karnataka (1); SiddhantSejwal, 27.82, Panjab University PB (2); GouravVithobaChavan, 27.91, Shivaji University (3)

Women 100M Breaststroke

Chahat Arora, 1:17.36, Panjab University PB (1); JyotiBajiraoPatil, 1:18.86, University of Mumbai (2); AartiPatil, 1:18.98, University of Mumbai

Men 100M Breaststroke

Danush Suresh, 01:03.98, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical (1); Benediction Rohit, 01:05.56, Anna University (2); MsYadeshBabu, 1:06.77, Anna University (3)

Team Championship Men – (Gold) Jain University, 116 points; (Silver) University of Delhi Institute of Eminence, 76 points; (Bronze) Anna University, 64 points

Team Championship Women – (Gold) Jain University, 100 points; (Silver) University of Madras, 74 points; (Bronze) Jadavpur University, 67 points

Shooting

25M Pistol Women (Finals)

Gold – Abhidnya Ashok Patil (BVU, MH) – 30; Silver – NivedithaVeloor Nair (BU, TN) – 28; Bronze – Neha (MSU, Saharanpur) – 25

10M Air Pistol Men (Finals)

Gold – Kamaljeet (IGU) – 242.1; Silver – Sarabjot Singh (PU) – 239.1; Bronze – SahilChoudhary (DUSC) – 216.9

Min Weight (45-48 kg) Women

Round 1- Swasti Arya (MDSU) btAnisha (LPU) 5-0

Round 2 – Gitika (GNDUA) btJanhavuChuri (UOM) 4-1

Lightfly Weight (48-50kg) Women

Round 3 – Tamanna (LPU) btSomwati (CU) 5-0

Round 4 – Mansi Sharma (DBRAU) btAnchalSingh(DRMLU) 5-0